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<blockquote data-quote="James" data-source="post: 3305" data-attributes="member: 212"><p>Uh huh ..... but as a hobbyist one is keen to learn new tricks, right. </p><p>Queen raising is one of them.</p><p>Even with two hives, you can use a split board and make one box queenless, graft cells from your perfect hive and place the cells in the queenless box to start them, then remove the division board and hey presto, you have a queen right starter hive.</p><p>Come emergence ten days later, kill the queen, place a cell in the bottom and top with a division board between the two.</p><p>The magic trick is done.</p><p> You have a virgin on the top, another on the bottom, and hopefully one gets mated.</p><p>If both get mated, you've doubled your numbers,or give the excess queen away to a mate and put the two boxes back together.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James, post: 3305, member: 212"] Uh huh ..... but as a hobbyist one is keen to learn new tricks, right. Queen raising is one of them. Even with two hives, you can use a split board and make one box queenless, graft cells from your perfect hive and place the cells in the queenless box to start them, then remove the division board and hey presto, you have a queen right starter hive. Come emergence ten days later, kill the queen, place a cell in the bottom and top with a division board between the two. The magic trick is done. You have a virgin on the top, another on the bottom, and hopefully one gets mated. If both get mated, you've doubled your numbers,or give the excess queen away to a mate and put the two boxes back together. [/QUOTE]
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